Find Spot record 708/0/1 - Unstratified Middle Bronze Age Find

Late Bronze Age axe found at Blackmires Farm.

{1} A bronze socketed axe has been obtained from Wappenham (SP 6245)

{7} Northampton Museum have no information regarding this find.

{8} An old sketch of an unlooped palstave was found at Northamptonshire County Library. Below the sketch is a note saying `Bronze Celt found in Black Mire Farm, Wappenham'. Exhibited in Northampton Museum. The sketch has now been identified with a palstave now held in the museum, but with no provance recorded. Presumably the same item wrongly recorded in VCH 1 902 143 as a socketed axe. The name `Blackmires Farm' appears on modern OS maps.

<1> Ryland, W, Adkins, D, and Serjeantson, R M, 1902, The Victoria History of the Counties of England: Northamptonshire, p.143 (unchecked) (Series). SNN100368.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1950s/1960s, Ordnance Survey Record Cards, SP64NW3 (checked) (Index). SNN443.

<3> 1875, The Archaeological Journal (32), 32/ (Journal). SNN13715.

<4> George T.J., 1904, An Archaeological Survey of Northamptonshire, (unchecked) (Index). SNN10170.

<5> BROADSIDES, (unchecked) (Uncertain). SNN60148.

<6> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1982, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.160 (checked) (Series). SNN77382.

<7> Seaman, B H, 1970, Field Investigator's Comments, F1 BHS 04-FEB-1970 (Notes). SNN111541.

<8> Brown A.E. (ed.), 1980, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1979, p. 166 (Article). SNN56490.

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Sep 6 2023 4:20PM